'Everyone has forgotten Tonu'
“Everyone has forgotten Tonu. People have stopped talking about her murder. The media doesn't report on it like before.”
Tonu's mother Anwara Begum said this while talking to The Daily Star yesterday as the result of her daughter's first-year final exam came out.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Sohagi Jahan Tonu, a graduate student of history at Victoria College in Comilla, took the exam about a month before her death. She got GPA 2.83.
“What's the use of this result now? All we want is justice,” Anwara said over phone, crying.
"More than four months have passed but police are yet to arrest any of the killers. I do not know how long it will take.”
Tonu's brother Rubel Hossain said, “My sister enrolled in the history department as she liked reading history. Now she herself became part of history.”
Tonu was very sick during her first-year exam, the last one in her life, he added.
Tonu, also a theatre activist, was found murdered inside the Comilla Cantonment on March 20.
Two autopsies could not determine the cause of her death though her father Yaar Hossain, who first spotted the body in a bush, saw the back of his daughter's head smashed and injury marks on her nose.
The police inquest report also did not cite any sign of injury.
However, the family members saw a ray of hope of getting justice as CID officials through DNA tests found that Tonu was raped before being murdered.
The officials on May 16 said the tests of the specimens collected from Tonu's clothes found spermatozoa of three males.
The agency was supposed to seek the court's permission to check if the samples collected from Tonu's clothes match DNA of any of the listed suspects.
Tonu's family members alleged that the agency officials have yet to apply for that permission. “They just say they are looking into it,” Tonu's mother told this correspondent several days ago.
“We have lost everything. Now we are losing hope of getting justice.”
CID Inspector Gazi Md Ibrahim, investigation officer of the case, could not be reached yesterday despite repeated attempts.
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